Down on the.. eehm.. pond?

"Anima" (anima) 08/07/2015 at 12:38 • Filed to: None

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As I was cycling through town today I came upon a gathering of amphibious cars. So I went to get my camera and took some quick shots.

Something doesn’t belong here.

A G class based amphibious car. Anybody has some more info on this one?

A Dodge jeep.

The steering wheel had a Citroen logo on it. Lots of equipment in it too. Looked like it was actually regularly used as a boat.

HammerheadFistpunch > Anima 08/07/2015 at 12:41

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man, that looks all kinda of fun. Boat cars are way more interesting to me that airplane cars.

georgechristensen > Anima 08/07/2015 at 12:41

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Were there any Toybota’s?

OPPOsaurus WRX > Anima 08/07/2015 at 12:42

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wow thats an awesome car show

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Anima 08/07/2015 at 12:43

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It *could* be amphibious. I keep hearing that Beetles float for a while.

Anima > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/07/2015 at 12:45

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Well, I’m sure it will go INTO the water.. The getting it out part is harder.

Anima > OPPOsaurus WRX 08/07/2015 at 12:46

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Yeah, and as far as I know, nearly unannounced. I hadn’t heard about it.

Anima > georgechristensen 08/07/2015 at 12:46

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Nope, No Clarksons in sight either. Well.. at least above water that is.

Anima > HammerheadFistpunch 08/07/2015 at 12:48

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You mean as in they can actually be used?

But yeah, fun to see these cars out there!

HammerheadFistpunch > Anima 08/07/2015 at 12:52

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I used to have dreams as a kid of driving an RV down to lake powell and then just driving in. If I could afford a terrawind, I would own one.

Patrick Nichols > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/07/2015 at 13:06

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The engine is in the right spot for most boats I’ve seen too

Patrick Nichols > Anima 08/07/2015 at 13:09

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Holy hell I just looked up prices and amphicars are fucking expensive

gmctavish needs more space > Anima 08/07/2015 at 19:06

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One of my coworkers has wealthy parents, and them and one of their wealthy friends were drunk and he decided to buy an Amphicar on eBay and have it shipped to his summer house on a lake in BC. He didn’t even remember doing it in the morning so like a month later a truck just showed up with an Amphicar and he was like “oh....right, that happened”. Apparently he just kept it and runs around the lake in it. To be able to just drop 40 grand or whatever and not notice....

Anima > gmctavish needs more space 08/07/2015 at 19:10

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Well.. Rich people be rich. I just drunk buy t-shirts of ebay.

All you can hope is that he sometimes also drunk donates to charity. :)

In any case, money in circulation is a good thing.

duurtlang > Anima 08/10/2015 at 12:10

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I actually saw one of those yesterday. In Germany. TOWING A CARAVAN. Yes, the amphicar was the tow vehicle. It might actually have been one of these vehicles you shot pictures off, given that it was close to the Dutch border and the amphicar was moving away from the Netherlands.